2015_ARCA_Racing_Series

2015 ARCA Racing Series

2015 ARCA Racing Series

Racing season

The 2015 ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards was the 63rd season of the ARCA Racing Series. The season began on February 14 with the Lucas Oil 200 presented by Autozone and ended October 16 with the Full Throttle S'loonshine 98.9.

Grant Enfinger, the 2015 ARCA champion.
Austin Wayne Self finished second behind Enfinger in the championship.
Josh Williams finished third in the championship.

The championship was won by GMS Racing driver Grant Enfinger,[1] who won a series-high six races during the season, including the first three of the season at Daytona,[2] Mobile and the Nashville Fairgrounds. Enfinger finished 425 points clear of his nearest rival for the title, Mason Mitchell Motorsports' Austin Wayne Self, who passed Josh Williams (Josh Williams Motorsports) for the runner-up position at the final race. Self finished outside the top fifteen on only two occasions, and won one race during the season, at Winchester; while Williams recorded no fewer than fifteen top-ten finishes but was unable to break into victory lane.

The only other driver inside the top ten in the final championship standings to take a race victory was Kyle Weatherman, for the Cunningham Motorsports team. Weatherman was the race winner at the New Jersey Motorsports Park road course, and despite missing a quarter of the races in 2015, Weatherman was able to finish in tenth place in the final championship standings. Ten other drivers won races during the 2015 season; Mason Mitchell and Ryan Reed each won two races, while A. J. Fike, Ken Schrader, Blake Jones, Travis Braden, Cole Custer, Trevor Bayne, Ross Kenseth and Todd Gilliland all made one visit to victory lane.

Teams and drivers

Complete schedule

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Limited schedule

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Notes

  1. [N 1]
    It was a Rick Ware Racing entry using Fast Track Racing's owner points.
  2. [N 2]
    It was a Weatherman Motorsports entry using Fast Track Racing's owner points.
  3. [N 3]
    Custer's three races were JR Motorsports entries using Wayne Peterson Racing's owner points. The Peterson team would then field another car, the No. 08, in those same three races.
  4. [N 4]
    Entries were fielded in a collaboration with Venturini Motorsports.

Changes

  • Thomas Praytor ran a full season for his new family team, Max Force Racing, having been a driver with Hixson Motorsports for the prior two years.
  • Canadian female driver Sarah Cornett-Ching ran for rookie of the year in the No. 2, replacing Praytor. She drove for a new team, RACE 101, which was fielded in a partnership with Hixson.[3]
  • Driver Terry Jones and crew chief Mark Rette formed a new team, Rette Jones Racing, that ran on a partial basis.
  • Josh Reeves was scheduled to run a full season for Carter 2 Motorsports as a development driver, but this did not occur.[4]
  • Brennan Poole was scheduled to drive a minimum of 10 races for Team BCR Racing, but those plans were called off once he was announced to run a partial Xfinity Series schedule for HScott Motorsports with Chip Ganassi. His only ARCA attempt in 2015 (and for Team BCR) was a withdrawal at Daytona.
  • Frank Kimmel cut back his schedule after 18 full seasons in ARCA. Additionally, Kimmel moved from Win-Tron Racing to the Venturini Motorsports No. 25 car, sharing the ride with Brandon Jones.[5]
  • Bo LeMastus ran full-time and for rookie of the year with his own team, the No. 42 Dodge/Toyota for Crosley Sports Group.[6]
  • It was announced that Clay Campbell, Matt Tifft, and Ross Kenseth would share Ken Schrader Racing's No. 52 car for the full season, along with Schrader himself.[7] Hunter Baize would later join those four drivers in the car as well, making two starts.
  • It was announced that Will Kimmel would drive his family team's No. 69 Ford full-time again in 2015,[8] although he did end up being replaced in two races by Matt Wallace and in one by James Swanson this season.
  • After driving at Daytona in the No. 68 for Kimmel Racing, it was announced that David Levine would run for rookie of the year and drive the No. 59 for Lira Motorsports for the remainder of the season.[9]
  • Bobby Hamilton Jr. was set to run the full season for Carter 2 Motorsports in the No. 97 Dodge,[10] but he left the team after ten races.
  • Venturini Motorsports' No. 55 Toyota was shared between drivers including Cody Coughlin, Dominic Ursetta,[11] and Todd Gilliland, who won in his series debut at Toledo just days after turning 15 and being eligible to race in ARCA.

Schedule

The ModSpace 125 at Pocono Raceway in August

The 2015 schedule was fully released on November 26, 2014.[12]

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Results and standings

Races

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Drivers' championship

(key) Bold – Pole position awarded by time. Italics – Pole position set by final practice results or rainout. * – Most laps led.

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See also

References

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    "Grant Enfinger wins ARCA title; Mason Mitchell wins race at Kansas". ESPN.com. ESPN Inc. Associated Press. October 16, 2015. Retrieved December 27, 2015.
  2. [2]
    Inabinett, Mark (February 14, 2015). "Fairhope's Grant Enfinger starts ARCA Racing Series season with Daytona victory". The Birmingham News. Advance Publications. Retrieved December 27, 2015.
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    "Cornett-Ching planning full ARCA Racing Series schedule for RACE 101". ARCA. March 11, 2015. Retrieved March 15, 2015.
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    "Carter 2 Motorsports moves ahead with driver development program for 2015". ARCA. October 24, 2014. Retrieved October 24, 2014.
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    "Ansell / Menards Shift ARCA Team Sponsorship to Venturini Motorsports". ARCA. January 15, 2015. Retrieved February 1, 2015.
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    "World globe trotter Bo LeMastus jammin' the jukebox...chasin' the racin'". ARCA. February 23, 2015. Retrieved July 20, 2015.
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    "Federated Auto Parts And Ken Schrader Racing Announce 2015 Schedule". ARCA. March 13, 2015. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved March 15, 2015.
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    "Kimmel Racing...a time-honored tradition since 1949". ARCA. January 28, 2015. Retrieved January 30, 2015.
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    "Lira Motorsports announces full season for Levine...starts at Daytona test". ARCA. December 17, 2014. Retrieved February 14, 2015.
  10. [10]
    "BOBBY HAMILTON JR. TO DRIVE FULL SEASON FOR CARTER 2 MOTORSPORTS". Carter 2 Motorsports. January 26, 2015. Archived from the original on February 1, 2015. Retrieved February 2, 2015.
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    "Colorado Super Late Model champ ready for ARCA debut at Mobile Int'l Speedway". ARCA. March 6, 2015. Retrieved March 15, 2015.
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    "ARCA Racing Series schedule set for 2015". ARCA. November 26, 2014. Retrieved November 26, 2014.
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    "ARCA to start 2015 season in familiar spot – Daytona". arcaracing.com. arcaracing.com. October 22, 2014. Retrieved October 22, 2014.
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    "ARCA and FOX Sports announce multi-year broadcast agreement". ARCA. February 10, 2015. Retrieved February 11, 2015.
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    "ARCA Mobile 200 returning in 2015". ARCA. November 25, 2014. Retrieved November 25, 2014.
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    "ARCA Racing Series to return to Fairgrounds Speedway in Nashville in 2015". ARCA. November 24, 2014. Retrieved November 24, 2014.
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    "Salem Speedway will host two ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards races in 2015". ARCA. November 24, 2014. Retrieved November 24, 2014.
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    "Talladega returns in 2015...53rd appearance in May". ARCA. November 21, 2014. Retrieved November 21, 2014.
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    "ARCA to return to New Jersey's Thunderbolt Raceway in 2015". ARCA. November 11, 2014. Retrieved November 12, 2014.
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    "ARCA announces return to Pocono Raceway in 2015". arcaracing.com. arcaracing.com. November 6, 2014. Retrieved November 6, 2014.
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    "ARCA to be part of three days of racing at Michigan in June". ARCA. November 18, 2014. Retrieved November 19, 2014.
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    "Chicagoland to host ARCA Racing Series over Father's Day weekend in 2015". November 25, 2014. Retrieved November 25, 2014.
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    "ARCA will return to Iowa Speedway in 2015". ARCA. October 31, 2014. Retrieved October 31, 2014.
  24. [24]
    "Lucas Oil Raceway to host ARCA doubleheader in 2015". ARCA. November 22, 2014. Retrieved November 22, 2014.
  25. [25]
    "Berlin Raceway to host ARCA Racing Series in August, 2015". ARCA. November 19, 2014. Retrieved November 19, 2014.
  26. [26]
    "Annual dirt track state fair classics Springfield and DuQuoin return for 2015 season". ARCA. November 19, 2014. Retrieved November 19, 2014.
  27. [27]
    "Kentucky Speedway returns to ARCA schedule in 2015". ARCA. November 20, 2014. Retrieved November 20, 2014.
  28. [28]
    "ARCA champion to be crowned in Kansas in 2015". ARCA. November 12, 2014. Retrieved November 12, 2014.
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